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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Global
Citizen is a social action platform for a global generation that wants to solve
the world’s biggest challenges. It is a community of people that help fight
extreme poverty and inequality around the world, and support approaches that
make life more sustainable for the people and the planet.

They are
working together to achieve specific and tangible outcomes. They are working on
issues like Girls and Women, Health, Education, Finance and Innovation, Food
and Hunger, Water and Sanitation, and Environment.

Objective:

The Global
Citizen aims to raise the consciousness of a generation to start taking responsibilities
for the sake of better sustainable future of planet. It promotes its ideology
through different entertainment portals of this generation like the musical
entertainment at Global Citizen Festival.

International
music act Coldplay whose concert was in Mumbai on 19 November 2016, was a part
of The Global Citizen Festival India 2016.

The Global
Citizen Festival India is an action-rewarded, awareness-driven free music
festival where fans and influencers engage with causes to win tickets. It is a
celebration of change, where leaders, artists, and youth come together with the
common goal of eradicating extreme poverty.

The concert result

By
the end of 2019, all Maharashtra citizens will have safe access to water and sanitation,
the chief minister said on Saturday.

All
of the girls and women of Mumbai will be provided with safe menstrual hygiene
by the end of 2019, according to a commitment made by Poonam Mahajan, an MP
representing the city.

Viacom,
one of the partners of the Global Citizen Festival India, committed to
installing sanitation facilities at 77 open defecation spots in Mumbai by the
end of 2019.

ConnectEd
Technologies committed to bringing smart classrooms to 25,000 more students by
the end of next year, and BMC said it would provide digital education through
tablet computers to 350 government schools and 30,000 students.

Ratan
Tata pledged Rs 300 crore for water sanitation in Maharashtra on behalf of the
Tata Trust, at the concert.

While all
these initiatives will definitely help our country, it will be interesting to
see how the leaders of the country put words to action to these incredible steps
in partnering with this new youth movement to help make India clean and safe
for all citizens. Now is the time for them to take action.